Evaluation of a preliminary title to protect zero-grazed dairy cattle with insecticide-treated mosquito netting in Western Kenya

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-34

  Bauer, B ^a,b   Gitau, D ^b   Oloo, F P ^b   Karanja, S M ^b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b African Union (AU/IBAR)   (Kenya)

^c KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Glossina spp; Insecticide treated netting; Trypanosome infections; Western Kenya; Zero grazing units

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOCRIT; INSECT CONTROL; KENYA; METHODOLOGY; NAGANA; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; KENYA; PARASITEMIA; PILOT PROJECTS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 33644814578     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: 15737438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4343-2     Document Type: Article

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